By becoming corporate members, these organisations are generously helping to keep our servers running, supporting the work of our volunteer working groups, and above all showing their support for OpenStreetMap.

We hope to see a growing number of organisations appearing on our Corporate Members page. Thank you for your support!

Next week OKFN’s Open Knowledge Festival takes place in Berlin bringing together open data practitioners from all over the planet. There is also a flurry of activities around OpenStreetMap, here is a run down. Are you in Berlin? Come out and meet other mappers.

The Julia OpenStreetMap Package has been published. It provides basic functionality for parsing, viewing, and working with OpenStreetMap map data. “The package is intended mainly for researchers who want to incorporate this rich, global data into their work …”.

“Opengeofiction – Using the OSM software for mapping a fictional planet” is online. You can find the SotM-EU session here.

After nearly 4 years and almost 100 Weekly OSM Summary posts, we would like to announce our retirement as editors from this service. Thank you for all your suggestions and submissions to the blog over the years! We hope that other volunteers will be willing to continue this service for the OSM community in the near future. We will officially end our endeavor with the 100th Weekly OSM Summary in a few weeks. This announcement does not imply that we will stop contributing to the OSM project or that we won’t conduct other data analyses in the future. Feel free to check out Pascal’s blog at neis-one.org in the future for any updates. Thanks. Pascal and Dennis

Other OpenStreetMap provided services should not be affected – all of the following are expected to function normally:

www.openstreetmap.org web site will allow edits as per normal (iD or
Potlatch).

API will allow map editing (using iD, JOSM, Merkaartor etc.)

Forum

trac (bug-tracker)

help.openstreetmap.org

tile serving (“View The Map” & “Export”)

Wiki

mailing lists

subversion and git (source code repositories)

donate.openstreetmap.org

Technical: We are moving all the servers listed here to a new UCL data center. The current building is being closed soon for refurbishment. The new data center has better server racks, power feeds, cooling and faster networking.

* Searches through the website will still work – we will redirect
them to another nominatim instance temporarily.